The GPI is an interdisciplinary group of researchers, interested in the nature, logic, dynamical processes and ethical implications of information and information technologies, including computation and computer science.

The Philosophy of Information (PI) is a new area of research, with roots in philosophical logic, formal epistemology, philosophy of AI and computation, computer ethics, analytic philosophy and several other disciplines and research programs dating from the second half of the twentieth century.

We believe that PI is a fruitful and interesting way of doing philosophy in the twenty-first century. Although scholarly attention is paid to the history of philosophy and to the great thinkers and scientists of the past, the group is not interested in the archeology of ideas, in looking behind in order to see what may lay ahead, or in reading and reflecting on the past canon for its own sake, without paying attention to whether what past canon says is true or false. This applies very recent classics as well.

We share with the past analytic tradition a methodological preference for a problem-solving approach, for clear thinking and for well-argued, explicit theses that are related to and relevant for our time. However, we do not share the thesis of "philosophy of language as philosophia prima" and we are not keen on scholastic diatribes. Needless to say, our "philosophia prima" is PI. Thus, in the words of Patrick Allo, the motto of the group is "information first!".

We consider philosophy and science in general as joint, if different, enterprises dealing with the same business of seeking to know and understand reality and human life.

Members of the group belong to several universities and their researches cover a very wide selection of topics, which are listed under their profiles.

The group has a twin in Oxford, where the IEG (the interdepartmental Information Ethics research Group) comprises several of our members.

The research group is open to new contributions and ideas. If you wish to know more about our activities you may subscribe to the mailing list (which is fully moderated and low traffic) and thus receive our Newsletter. If you are actively doing research in an area that substantially involves PI topics or are just interested in PI, we would be delighted to hear from you and about your work, so we hope you will get in touch by sending an email to Luciano Floridi.